Directors

There are nine Board members for the Board of Directors of the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District.

Applications for appointment of three directors of the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District are being accepted by the Clerk of the Combined Court at the Routt County Courthouse. The application deadline is February 16, 2018. Please click here for more information.

One Board member is appointed from each Division: 1,2, and 3. For a map of the District and each Division, pleaseclick here .

John Redmond

Term expires 2018

Doug Monger, Vice-President

Term expires 2019

Mr. Doug Monger represents Area 1 and has been a board member of the UYWCD since 1998, and has served as President and Vice President on and off since 2004.

Doug is a Fourth-Generation Routt County Native and was raised on the family ranch located 2 miles up the Elk River from the confluence with the Yampa River. He graduated from Steamboat Springs High School, and later graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting.

Doug, a lifelong rancher, currently lives 2 miles east of Hayden Colorado on a 400-acre irrigated hay ranch. The 400-acre family ranch along with leased acreage supports a 200 head cow herd, and produces over 500 tons of irrigated hay. The ranch is on the Walker and Williams Ditches, both sporting 1892 senior water rights.

Doug also has had a small accounting practice since 1978; he deals with small businesses and individual income tax preparation.

Doug has served as a Routt County Commissioner from 2001 to present. He serves on the Colorado Counties Inc. Land Use, Rural Affairs, Public Lands, Health and Human Services Steering Committees, and has also served on the Special Water Resources Subcommittee. Doug also has served as the President of Colorado Counties Inc., and as Chairman of the Western District of Colorado Counties, Inc., he has also chaired several task forces for Colorado Counties including Water, Severance/Federal Mineral Lease.

Doug’s other offices held past and present include:

Board Member Colorado River Water Conservancy District – current

Officer and board member of Upper Yampa Water Conservancy Board – current

Officer and board member Yampa Valley Housing Authority – current

Board Member Yampa/White Basin Roundtable – current

Officer and board member Yampa Valley Airport Commission – current

Member Routt County Wildland Fire Policy committee – current

Board Member Club 20 and Co-Chairman of Public Lands Committee- current

Board Member Colorado Water Congress – past

Board Member Colorado Water Resources & Power Development Authority – past

Term expires 2019

Ron Murphy

Term expires 2018

Thomas R Sharp

Term expires 2018

Tom served as president of the Routt County Bar Association, and on the Board of Governors and a Vice President of the Colorado Bar Association. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Colorado Bar Foundation. Aside from water law, his practice specialized in real estate, commercial, banking, utility, and special district law.

Mr. Sharp has been active at the local, regional and state levels in water matters. He served for 20 years on the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority Board of Directors, including two terms as Chairman. He was a board member of the Colorado Water Conservation Board from 2004 to 2007. He is a past-chair of the Water Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association. He served for 13 years as the Routt County representative on the Board of Directors of the Colorado River District, including a 2-year term as Chairman of the Board. He is currently on the Executive Committee of the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District.

Mr. Sharp is active in many community and service club endeavors. He has been a bank director for more than 30 years, and served 9 years on the local school board. He is serving his second term as a Director of the Yampa Valley Community Foundation.

Mr. Sharp was part of the Water for the 21st Century (HB1177) process, and served 8 years as the first Chairman of the Yampa-White Rivers Basin Roundtable.

Mr. Sharp’s current term expires March 2018.

Thomas R Sharp

Bob Woodmansee

Term expires 2019

Bob was born in Albuquerque a few months before the US entered WWII. His family bought an irrigated farm (Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District) three years later 20 miles south of Albuquerque where he grew up learning about hard work and experiencing 4-H (state tractor driving champion), ran track, and was in music and science (“Big Frog, Little Pond”). Bob left for the big university in Albuquerque as a totally unprepared student from a small rural school system in 1959 (Tiny Frog, Huge Pond). That was college try number one. College try two (1965) led to the discovery of the science of ecology. Try two was successful. Also, met Sarah at the University of New Mexico where they married in 1963. Bob and Sarah have two daughters, Clara and Katie, both doing well in their chosen careers.

Bob and Sarah owned and operated an irrigated hay farm (Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, North Poudre Irrigation Company) near Wellington, CO for 20 years before retirement and moving to Routt County in 2005.

Bob’s work experience includes Professor Emeritus, Departments of Rangeland Ecosystem Science and Ecosystem Science and Sustainability; Director Emeritus, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University; and is currently Senior Research Scientist (NREL) and Member of Colorado Statue University (CSU) Water Faculty.

Bob developed federally funded, peer reviewed research programs in nutrient cycling, landscape ecology, grazing animal behavior, long-term ecological research, community-based decision-making processes and climate change research. He has collaborated on projects leading to breakthroughs in agro-ecosystem and mine land reclamation management. His research projects yielded several hundred papers and book chapters and several books. Bob taught classroom and online courses in range ecology and natural resources, forest soils, systems ecology, and rural land use planning. Bob served as Program Director, Ecosystem Studies, National Science Foundation, Washington DC (1982-84); Executive Director, Sustainable Biosphere Initiative, Ecological Society of America (ESA), Washington DC (1993-94); and as a member of numerous national and international science committees and advisory groups. He is the senior editor and author of a book “The Systems Ecology Paradigm – Evolution and Challenges for the Future” – due Fall 2017 – A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, CSU. Bob was a member, Routt County Planning Commission and Larimer County Rural Land Use Center Board.

Bob currently is serving as Board President, Morrison Creek Metropolitan Water and Sanitation District. He teaches online graduate course “Managing for Ecosystem Sustainability” in Western Center for Integrated Resource Management – College of Agriculture, Warner College of Natural Resources, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and School of Global Environmental Sustainability – CSU.

Bob is an advocate for using rational, science-based Best Management Practices in natural resource and environmental decision-making and land-use planning.